Re: Just revived my IIgs!

["Bill Garber" <willy46pa@comcast.net>]

"Jim" <nunya@business.net> wrote in message
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> Just wanted to say that I got my IIgs off the shelf and powered up after
> about 3 years of non-use.   It's a ROM 3 in a "Woz" case with 5248K RAM,
> 100 meg hard drive divided into 4 partitions (32, 32, 32, 4) attached to
> a CMS 2.0 SCSI controller, System 6.0.1 and ProDOS with loads of
> software, a PC Transporter running on a 16 meg MS-DOS hard drive volume
> on the SCSI drive, 2 3.5" Apple drives and a 5.25" Dual Drive running on
> a card in slot 6.   I have a couple of PC drives that used to be
> connected to the PCT, but I haven't found them yet.
>
> Everything is working fine, and the date and time is still correct.
>
> What got me interested again was downloading the Pocket //e emulator
> that's running just fine on my iPaq Pocket PC.    I already have loads
> of .DSK images from my ApplePC and AppleWin emulators, so software is no
> problem.    Pocket //e is actually pretty cool, but there's nothing like
> the real thing.
>
> I may get really ambitious in the next few days and break out my
> Platinum //e with 2 Dual Drives (4 drives), and go crazy with that.
>
> I always forget how cool these machines were.

They are cooler still. You can now get IDE and Compact Flash
hard drives that will run in the //e or the IIgs. (//e must be enhanced)
I have an 800 mb IDE drive in my IIgs and a 64 mb CF card in the IIe.
I recently acquired an adapter set up that converts CF to PCMCIA to
IDE and will add that to the IIgs with 128 mb CF card for backups.

Bill @ GarberStreet Enterprizez };-)
Web Site - http://garberstreet.netfirms.com
Email - willy46pa@comcast.net



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